St Cyprian’s School – Eastbourne

L C V WILKES MUM WILKES OLD BOYS WILKES FAMILY ORWELL CORRESPONDENCE

Vaughan Wilkes family Lewis and Cicely Vaughan Wilkes had five children, and many descendents who continued to exemplify the spirit of St Cyprians in the fields of education, the church, social services and support for the third world. John Wilkes (J C V Wilkes) became a schoolmaster at Eton and was Master in House before becoming Warden (Headmaster) of Radley College. He took Holy Orders and left his teaching career to become Curate of Hunslett near Leeds. Subsequently he was Vicar of Marlow and active in other Bucks parishes. In his later years he became very involved in the Peace movement. Dick Wilkes (R L V Wilkes) entered the Colonial Service and distinguished himself in various African and Asian countries – culminating in Sarawak in 1963. Rosemary (Bud) Wilkes married Bill Tomlinson (W J V Tomlinson) a first class cricketer who joined the staff of St Cyprians in 1924 and was later Headmaster Marygold Wilkes was married to Robert Orwin who served in Nigeria and then to David Ashmore who was on the staff of St Cyprians Deryn Wilkes married A A Hurst (Alec) who was a distinguished authority on sailing and tall ships and the author of several books including “Marine Art”, “Square Riggers -The Final Epoch”, “The Call of High Canvas”, “The Music of Five Oceans”. Some Grandchildren Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes (1946-2003) - Fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Hilda's College, who began the series of contacts behind the Iron Curtain that led to the foundation of underground universities and educational networks in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe Marian Ashmore (Marian Carr) (1946-2000) – Secretary of the English Ladies' Golf Association for 13 years and an outstanding amateur golfer herself Roland Hurst (1949-1991)– University Administrator at the University of Kent and subsequently Director of Information Services at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where he instigated the JRF Findings papers